NSF’s weekly video program highlighted the company’s PWS technology platform and its ability to detect the early presence of ovarian cancer. Click here to view video . (The segment featuring NanoCytomics begins at the 2:52 mark of the program.)
Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science highlighted the Chicago Tribune’s coverage of a study conducted by Dr. Backman’s team, which showed promising results for PWS microscopy as a detection method for ovarian cancer. Click here to read full story.
Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science reported on the Backman Lab’s ovarian cancer study that was published in the International Journal of Cancer. As described in this article, “The PWS-based test makes use of the “field effect,” a biological phenomenon in which cells located some distance from the malignant or pre-malignant tumor [Continue Reading]
This video segment includes soundbites from an ovarian cancer patient, and Drs. Backman and Roy. The segment also shows the collection of cells from a patient’s cheek for the trial evaluating PWS microscopy in the early detection of lung cancer. Click here to view video.
This National Science Foundation publication covered PWS microscopy’s ability to “…detect lung cancer by merely shining diffuse light on cells swabbed from patients’ cheeks.” According to NSF News, “The recent results are an extension of several successful trials involving the light-scattering analysis technique, including early detection successes with pancreatic and colon cancers. Click here to read full [Continue Reading]
Dr. Backman’s appointment as a fellow of the prestigious AIMBE research society was featured in a “News from McCormick” web posting. Click here to read full story.
Northwestern university reported that recent clinical trials show that a new colon cancer screening technique created by Dr. Backman’s team “…has a high enough sensitivity that it could potentially be as or more successful than a colonoscopy in screening for colon cancer.” Results from the study, conducted The results were recently published in the journal [Continue Reading]
As reported in news from Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Drs. Backman, Roy, Subramanian and their colleagues developed a way to examine cell biopsies and detect never-before-seen signs of early-stage pancreatic cancer. Their data had recently been published in the Optical Society of America journal Optics Letters. Click her e to read full [Continue Reading]
Northwestern University reported that Dr. Backman’s research team using PWS microscopy demonstrated “…for the first time that nanoscale changes are present in cells extremely early on in carcinogenesis.” Their study was published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Click here to read full story.
